2025 Strategic Play Conference:

Play without Borders

April 23-24, 2025 

The Location: Nita Lake Lodge, Whistler, BC, CANADA

You will see, hear, and experience how large corporations like NASA, USAF, P&G, IKEA, Google, Ernst & Young, and Global Banks are putting THE POWER OF PLAY to work around the world.

 

Get ready for a jam packed conference dedicated to the power of play, the learning starts here:

DATES: April 23 - April 24, 2024

LOCATION: Whistler, BC, CANADA

Stay and Play  - Post Conference: Certification Training April 25 & April 26, 2025

 

Beyond Fun: We are delving into the meaning, value, and soul-enriching Power of Play

 

• Are you looking for ways to engage the unengaged?
• Do you want to make better connections in classrooms, meetings, or in workshops?
• Do you want to bring more fun to work?
• Would you like to learn from experts from around the world?
• Are you searching for tools and techniques that deliver results?
• Would you benefit from networking and working in small groups with other play professionals?
  Register Now for Early Bird Pricing

   

  

  Included in this conference:

  Workshop Playsonality™ and PlayDNA™

  You will test your PlayDNA to learn your unique Playsonality style. Why is Adult Play so important? How we play is directly linked to how we learn, think, work, feel, perform, and interact with others. What you learn in play you remember for life!

  You will walk away with new insights about the power of play and how we all use play every day. Also, you will understand a new way to add more play to your corporate culture to improve well-being.

  Happiness and engagement are requirements for individuals, teams, and organizations, not to mention they are necessary for a sustainable future built on positive relationships.

  · Unpack the value of play at work and discover the ROI of play.

  · Identify play styles and the key to happiness via flow theory.

  · Use our Playsonality app to decode your play style.

  · Build your Play Style in 3D with LEGO® bricks.

  You will conduct a deep dive into how your play style fits together and create a unique and one of a kind playsonality.

  P.S. This is how you can unlock your secret weapon.

  Your Authentic and GenuinePlaysonality™ and PlayDNA™

  Note: We also have a special option to purchase all the materials to use this tool in your setting and gain your certification. Interested? Just ask us: hello@strategicplay.com

  Register Now for Conference Early Bird Prices

   

  Stay and Play  - Post Conference: Certification Training April 25 & April 26, 2025

  Strategic Storytelling -April 25, 2025

  
  Creative Conflict Management -April 26, 2025

  Past Speakers & Topics from 2018-2024

  Previous events have been held as follows:
  2024:  The Dali Art Museum, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
  2019:  Nita Lake Lodge, Whistler, BC, Canada
  2018:  Nita Lake Lodge, Whistler, BC, Canada
  2017:  Procter and Gamble, West Chester, Ohio, USA
  2016:  Nita Lake Lodge Whistler, BC, Whistler, Canada
  2015:  LEGO Land California, Carlsbad, California, USA

  (speaker presentations captured in graphics by the amazing Sarah D. Moyle)

  	Paul Propster NASA Jet Propulsion Lab   "3,2,1 Getting to the Launch Pad" 2024 Florida
  	Dr. Kim Macuare The Dali Museum "VTS Sight to Insight" 2024 Florida
  	Dr. Steve Ralph Pepperdine University "Pause for Play" 2024 Florida
  	Dr. Trisha Disney University "Playing with the Play Resistant" Florida 2024
  	Sara Ramadoro Google Overcoming Impostor Syndrome Florida 2024
  	Robin Sather LEGO® Certified Professional  "Playing Big" Florida 2024
  	Dr. Andrea Grimm  Dr. Astin Malschinger Porsche Fern Fh. "Help from Vienna" 2024 Florida
  	Dr. Paco Suay CEU University "Playing with Students" 2024 Florida
  	Dr. Steve Ralph, Pepperdine University Whistler 2018 "Play and the Pause Effect"
  	Jacqueline Lloyd Smith, Founder Strategic Play Whistler 2019 "Your brain on play"
  	Dr. Kasra Khorasani, M.D,York University Whistler, 2019 "LEGO®  Group Therapy For Inpatient settings."
  	Col. Jason (TOGA)  Trew, PhD, USAF Whistler 2019 "Rescuing Icarus". The intersection  between play and strategy"
  	Dr. Belinda Heyne, University of Calgary Whistler 2019 "Quantum Chemistry One Brick at a Time" Play and learning transfer.
  	Dr. Margaret Rudolf,Whistler 2018 "Trusting in Play & Change" How play can build trust during times of  change.
  	Richard Perez,P&G Innovation Lab Whistler, 2019 "Play methods and quick stories at P&G Innovation Gym". Using  playful methods for innovation.
  	Dr. Walter Stevenson, Golden Gate University  Whistler, 2018 "The question is the thing." Structuring and asking the right playful questions.
  	Dr. Camilla Jensen,Arizona State University,Whistler 2018 "Beyond the Bricks" Play to transfer tacit knowledge.

  Golden Brick Awards!

  The Golden Brick Awards are given to individuals leading the way by demonstrating their commitment to the adult play movement.  Our awards are built by hand by a Canadian Certified LEGO® Professional Builder (and Master Builder), Robin Sather.

  From left to right: Richard Perez, P&G, Jacqueline Lloyd Smith, Strategic Play founder, and Robin Sather, LEGO Professional Builder.
  
  

   

   

  Bringing your team? Email us for special group rates at hello@strategicplay.com

  Join the play movement! 

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